All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
He created The Men From The Ministry and gave Paul Merton his break
05/09/2026 … A 95-year-old blind veteran who wrote for Morecambe and Wise and The Two Ronnies, helped launch Paul Merton’s broadcasting career and created the hit BBC comedy…
25th anniversary tour visits Bolton
05/09/2026 … Some of the cast of Phoenix Nights are returning to the club where the sitcom was filmed for a live show.
© The Comedy Unit No third series for Jack Docherty comedy
05/09/2026 … BBC Scotland has axed police sitcom The Chief.
As comedian and his wife set up a charity in his memory
04/09/2026 … Russell Howard has revealed that his and his wife Cerys’s son, Felix, died just hours after being born.
© Studiocanal/Alamy Man About The House and Robin's Nest star
04/09/2026 … Sitcom star Richard O'Sullivan, best known for playing lovable chef-in-training Robin Tripp in Man About the House and Robin's Nest, has died…
© Netflix 
04/09/2026 … Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant left his wife more than £930,000 in his will, probate records reveal.
© BBC Wales Fox orders a series based on Mike Bubbins sitcom
04/09/2026 … Mike Bubbins’s BBC sitcom Mammoth is getting a US remake.
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